JSAC 2012 - IEEE JSAC Special Issue on Next-Generation Spectrum-Efficient and Elastic Optical Transport Networks

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Category JSAC 2012

Deadline: December 25, 2011 | Date: August 01, 2012

Venue/Country: online, Online

Updated: 2011-12-18 18:37:27 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Elastic Optical Transport Networks?

(Please accept our apology if you receive multiple copies of this CFP)

http://jsac.ucsd.edu/Calls/elasticopticaltransport.pdf

Improving capacity utilization of the optical transport network has been an

important research challenge for many years. Extensive research efforts

have been devoted to developing the approaches of grooming subwavelength

traffic demand onto large wavelength capacity pipes. These efforts,

however, only focus on efficiently utilizing the capacity pipes, without

addressing the issue of fixed ITU-T grid and frequency spacing in the DWDM

layer. Under the fixed frequency spacing, optical spectrum is often

over-provisioned for a low-rate optical channel, and this inefficiency

becomes even worse when more advanced modulation formats are employed.

Advanced optical transmission and networking techniques are desired to

provide flexibilities for optical channel spectrum allocation and to

develop the related network control system so as to cater to the bandwidth

elasticity of Internet traffic and improve fiber optical spectral usage.

Significant attention has been given to develop spectrum-efficient and

flexible optical transport networks in both academia and industry in the

past few years, and currently there are many research efforts underway

targeting at the development of appropriate solutions for future dynamic

elastic and scalable photonic infrastructures and network architectures,

efficient new algorithms that determine how the traffic demands can be

matched to resources in an optimized way, and a more flexible control and

management plane. The purpose of this special issue is to gather articles

that present recent advances in the field. We solicit original

contributions in (but not limited to) the following categories:

1) Spectrum-efficient elastic optical transport network architecture

2) Bit-rate flexible and spectrum-efficient optical transmission

techniques, and their impact on networking

3) New-generation elastic and spectrum-flexible reconfigurable optical

add/drop multiplexer (ROADM)

4) Spectrum-efficient optical transport network control planes, such as

extension to the Generalized Multiprotocol Label Switching (GMPLS) protocols

5) Lightpath routing, optical spectrum, modulation format and bit-rate

allocation algorithms

6) Time-dependent traffic demand support by applying the bandwidth

elasticity of the optical OFDM transmission technique

7) New protocol development and performance analysis for

spectrum-efficient optical transport networks

8) Cost-efficiency issues for spectrum and/or bit-rate flexible optical

transport networks

9) Spectrum de-fragmentation issues in spectrum flexible optical

transport networks

10) Energy-consumption issues of elastic and spectrum-efficient optical

transport networks

11) Performance monitoring of spectrum-efficient optical transport networks

12) Subwavelength traffic grooming approaches in spectrum-efficient optical

transport networks

13) Testbeds and applications of spectrum-efficient optical transport

networks

Prospective authors should follow the IEEE JSAC manuscript format described

in the Information for Authors at

http://www.jsac.ucsd.edu/Guidelines/info.html. Prior to submitting their

papers for review, authors should make sure that they understand and agree

to adhere to the over-length page charge policy presented in the JSAC

guidelines. Authors should submit a PDF version of their complete

manuscript to http://edas.info according to the following timetable:

Submissions due: December 1, 2011 , extended to *December 25, 2011*

First review complete: April 1, 2012

Notification of acceptance: June 1, 2012

Final manuscript due: August 1, 2012

Publication date: 4th Quarter 2012

GUEST EDITORS

Prof. Gangxiang Shen (lead), Soochow University, shengxsuda.edu.cn

Prof. Ken-ichi Sato, Nagoya University, satonuee.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Prof. William Shieh, Melbourne University, shiehwunimelb.edu.au

Prof. Ioannis Tomkos, Athens Information Technology Center, itomait.edu.gr

Dr. Jennifer Yates, AT&T, jyatesresearch.att.com

Prof. Eric W. M. Wong, City University of Hong Kong,

EricWongee.cityu.edu.hk